Coronation Street fans call for Jim McDonald’s return as he’s set for release from prison after seven years

Jim should be being released from prison around March this year after he robbed a bank to buy the Rovers

By Carl Greenwood

8th March 2018,5:15 pm

Updated: 8th March 2018,5:25 pm

CORONATION Street fans have called for the return of Jim McDonald after realising his prison sentence will soon be up.

The bank robber – who is played by actor Charlie Lawson in the ITV soap – was sentenced to seven in prison after robbing a bank to buy the Rovers Return in 2011, which would see him released sometime this year.

Jim was sent to prison in 2011 for holding up a bank to help ex-wife Liz buy the Rovers

One tweeted: “Bring back Jim McDonald #Corrie”

Another agreed and wrote: “I remember he was sentenced back in 2011 for 7 years meaning he’ll be released this year. Do you think we will or it’ll just be mentioned that he got out and then it’ll be forgotten?”

However, another fan has an intriguing theory that could see Jim make a brief return, but also remain in prison.

They say that if Pat Phelan is caught and imprisoned for his crimes, then Jim could be used by Liz to make his life a living hell on the inside.

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The fan wrote: “Maybe Pat Phelan will get sent to prison and Jim will be waiting so he will after Elizabeth visits and tells him a man called Pat Phelan is coming and to make his life hell, and that he killed someone called Andy.”

In real life, when not acting, Charlie runs a farm shop in his village in Cheshire.